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Displaying 2961 - 2970 of 3363Pre-cooked beans could turn down heat on Africa's dwindling forests
By: Pius Sawa
Date: 16 December 2016
Source:PLACE.TRUST.ORG
"I used to stay away three hours looking for enough wood to cook beans, but now it is easy because I need just a small bundle"
Why Zimbabwe has failed to sate the yearning for land and to fix rural hunger
Date: 12 December 2016
Source: The Conversation
Almost 40 years after its independence, land reform remains at the heart of Zimbabwe’s political and economic challenges. But perhaps more than any other issue in Zimbabwe, it has historically been met with inertia from government and the international community.
Prominent Honduran land rights activists report death threats
By: Paola Totaro
Date: 16 December 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Four high profile Honduran rights activists fighting to protect their ancestral lands in the southwest of the country have received death threats, including a home visit by a man wielding a machete, a monitoring group said on Friday.
Govt. not serious about implementing Forest Rights Act, say adivasi groups
Date: 16 December
Source: The Hindu
“If the government genuinely wants to do good by us, all it needs to do is to give us our constitutional rights over our jal-jangal-zameen (water-forest-land) as per the FRA.”
Corruption, caste keep poor from owning land in northern India
By: Rina Chandran
Date: 14 December 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
For decades, Kunta lived in a hut outside Kachhidih village in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, enduring the insults of higher-caste villagers who claimed her land - which she did not legally own - for grazing cattle.
She dreamed of owning just a small piece of land for her family who belong to the traditionally low-caste Dalit group.
Aerial photos show devastation of Gua Musang logging
By: Faiz Zainudin
Date: 4 December 2016
Source: Freemalaysiatoday
Orang Asli speak of bathing, drinking from muddy waters, as photos prove logging activities destroyed farm lands, disrupted flow of river waters.